Why Affordable Housing Groups Should Engage in the Election
Affordable homes are built with bricks and dry wall. They are also built with ballots. Yet low-income renters turn out to vote at much…
VOTER SUPPRESSION IS AN UNFORTUNATE BUT CONSISTENT FEATURE OF THE U.S. POLITICAL SYSTEM. LIMITATIONS ON THE RIGHT TO VOTE WERE CODIFIED IN THE JUNE 2013 CASE OF SHELBY COUNTY V. HOLDER, IN WHICH THE…
Dear Readers,
It has been quite the summer. Our last issue in late spring focused on the COVID-19 pandemic and how it would affect low-income renters. Since then, the pandemic has raged around the…
In a September 17 letter to Secretary of the Treasury Steven Mnuchin, Senator Susan Collins (R-ME) called for the White House to include emergency rental assistance in any future COVID-19 relief…
Last winter the Vermont Affordable Housing Coalition, an NLIHC state partner, and a number of its members signed onto the Climate Action Coalition's comprehensive set of climate action…
NLIHC seeks a housing advocacy organizer who will be responsible for maintaining and expanding NLIHC membership and mobilizing advocates on federal policy priorities in a manner that advances the…
A report from the Terner Center for Housing Innovation at UC Berkeley, “Recession and Recovery: The Critical Role of Housing Assistance in Promoting Economic Security for Low-Income Households,”…
Income and Poverty in the United States: 2019 and The Supplemental Poverty Measure: 2019. Between 2018 and 2019, poverty continued to decrease, while median household income and earnings increased.…
HUD and the Census Bureau released new housing data from the 2019 American Housing Survey (AHS) through the AHS Table Creator. The Table Creator allows users to create custom tables of housing and…
NLIHC welcomes Richard Mbouombouo, the coalition’s fall 2020 graphic design/communications intern. Richard is a senior at Yale where he is currently majoring in ethics,…
